The key to successful exam preparation lies not in what you study, but in what you choose to ignore. If you try to learn everything, every little fact in too short amount of time, you will not succeed. A better system is to use the guidance of your faculty and your own native intelligence to decide what is most important and what is not to concentrate your efforts accordingly.
Assemble all the materials you have:
A truckload of bricks and a stack of lumber may contain everything you need to construct a house, but you will never have a house you can live in until they are all assembled in the right order. In the same vein, a pile of books may contain everything you need to prepare for your USMLE, but you are not ready to take your exam unless the material is organized it a way that makes it useful. Collecting the essential pieces is not enough. You must assemble the pieces in a way that allows you to see the fundamental patterns which are the key to successful problem-solving. Beyond simply having the knowledge, you must make sense of it.
Divide all material that you study into three categories:
What you must know
What you ought to know
What it would be nice if you knew
Your goal is not to learn all the trees in the forest, but to come to an understanding of how the forest fits together. If you have trouble making these decisions on your own, that is what faculty are for. Faculty will guide you through the peaks and valleys of the material, helping you to separate the essential from the merely interesting.
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